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The rock monastery “St Dimitrii of Basarbovo” is one of the best  Places to go in Bulgaria.It is situated in the picturesque valley of the Rusenski Lom River amidst a number of rock cloisters. It lies about 10km away from the town of Rousse and carries the name of a near-by village. The earliest historical records for the monastery date back to the 15th century and are found in some Ottoman Empire’s tax registers.A description of a land property so-called “timar” is the first written document that mentions the name of the village of Basarbovo as “the Basarab monastery”.The saint, whose name the monastery carries, is mentioned by St Paisii Hilendarski in his “Slav-Bulgarian History”. St. Dimitrii of Basarbovo was born in 1985 and lived a simple life of a layman. After he died, his relics were transferred to the village of Basarbovo and reportedly helped to heal many a man. During the 1768-1774 Russian-Turkish War the relics were transported by General Peter Saltikov to Bucharest and placed with the Metropolitan (currently Patriarch’s) church “St. St. Constantine and Elena” where they are still to be found.